KNIPE, HENRY C.
Henry C. Knipe, one of the men who is closely identified
with the business interests of Leavenworth, and who is working to develop the commerce of the city, was born there
Sept. 5, 1876, a son of Hubert and Sybilla (Hensler) Knipe. His first American ancestor was Dennis Knipe, a native
of Cappelen, Rhine province, Prussia. He was a farmer in the Fatherland,, who immigrated to America in 1852 and
settled on a farm near Weston, Mo. Herbert Knipe was also born in Cappelen, Prussia, April 17, 1845. His mother's
father, Andrew Krohn, was a soldier in Napoleon's army and fought in many of the famous battles under that great
general. When the family came to America Hubert Knipe was a boy of nine. They made the voyage from Havre to New
Orleans in a sailing vessel called the Saxony and the voyage consumed over sixty days. From New Orleans they made
the voyage to Weston by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, reaching the new home in 1854. Two years later the
family removed to Leavenworth, where the father took an active part in the border troubles of the time. During
the Civil war he was a member of the Eighth Kansas infantry, but was discharged for physical disability and died
in 1879. In September, 1861, Hubert Knipe also enlisted in the Eighth Kansas infantry, which was stationed at Leavenworth
for six months, then joined Buell's army in the South, and took part in the battle of Perryville. Subsequently
he was under Rosecrans at Stone River, Chickamauga and at Chattanooga, where he was wounded on Nov. 25, 1863, being
shot through the hip, and lay in the hospital for months. In April, 1864, he was transferred to the Sixth regiment,
Veteran Reserve Corps, and served until discharged, Sept. 13, 1864. On his return to Leavenworth he engaged in
the grocery business and in 1870 opened a store of his own at the corner of Sixth and Miami streets, where he built
up a fine business which he conducted for thirty-six years. He never aspired to hold office, but was a loyal supporter
of the Republican party and treasurer of the Re-publican county central committee several years, and dealt extensively
in real estate. He married Sybilla Hensler, who was born in Baden. Germany, and came with her parents to Leavenworth
in 1865. The following children were born to them: Hubert J., who lives in Portland, Ore.; Benjamin Harrison; Henry
C.; Margaret, the wife of L. M. Barney, of Denver, Colo.; Nellie, the wife of Rudolph Hinz, of Leav-enworth; and
Edith. Mr. Knipe retired from active business in 1902 and died July 31, 1907.
Henry C. Knipe was reared in Leavenworth, where
he received the educational advantages afforded by the public schools. From 1896 to 1901 he was associated with
his father in the grocery business, but in the latter year branched out for himself in the transfer, storage and
coal business, in which he has been remarkably successful. His storehouses and offices occupy a building a block
and a half in width. Mr. Knipe takes an active interest in all civic affairs, being a member of the board of city
commissioners, of the board of directors of the Greater Leavenworth Club; the board of directors of the Fair Association,
and is interested in the Sunny Side Floral Company, which is located on Fifth street with greenhouses on Twelfth
and Vilas streets. In politics he is a Republican, and fraternally he is associated with the Knights of Pythias,
Modern Woodmen of America, United Commercial Travelers and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On June
2, 1902, Mr. Knipe married Frances Gertrude, a daughter of Anton Gabriel, of Leavenworth. They have one child,
Henry. (Kansas Biography Part 2 Vol. III, 1912
Page: 910-911. Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry)
EVERHARDY, JACOB
LOUIS M. D.
Jacob Louis Everhardy, M. D., one of the well known
physicians and surgeons of Leavenworth, was born in that city on May 9, 1874, a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Naegele)
Everhardy, both of whom were born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Peter Everhardy's parents were Matthew and Margaret (Corner)
Everhardy, both natives of Prussia. In 1833 Matthew Everhardy came to America and engaged in business as a gardener
near Cincinnati. Here Peter was born on Oct. 27, 1847, and until about nineteen years of age assisted his father
in marketing the products of the garden. His brother, Jacob, a butcher by trade, located at Leavenworth in 1858,
and in 1866 Peter joined him there and for a number of years was associated with him, first as an employee and
later as a partner. In 1875 he purchased Jacob's interest and continued the business under his own name. In 1893
he was nominated for mayor of Leavenworth, but declined the honor. Five years later on Jan. 10, 1898 he took the
oath of office as sheriff of Leavenworth county and served in that capacity with credit to himself and in a manner
satisfactory to the people of the county. Five children were born to Peter and Elizabeth Everhardy: Jacob L., Mary,
Clara, Blanche and Louise.
Dr. Jacob L. Everhardy acquired his early education in private schools. Having properly prepared himself to enter
college, he became a student in St. Mary's College at St. Mary's, Kan., where in 1893 he received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, and two years later the degree of Master of Arts. In 1894 he entered the University Medical College,
of Kansas City, Mo., where he graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1897. Immediately upon completing
his course in the medical college Dr. Everhardy began practice in his home city and soon built up a lucrative business.
He has served as police surgeon, was secretary of the board of health during the years 1903-04 and is now the examining
physician for a number of the principal life insurance companies. He has also served as county health officer;
as secretary of the board of United States examining surgeons; secretary of the Leavenworth County Medical Society
and secretary of the Kansas Association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis. Although fifteen years have
elapsed since Dr. Everhardy received his diploma as a phy-sician and surgeon, he has not allowed himself to fall
behind in the march of progress. Realizing that the medical profession is one of evolution and improvement, he
has, by reading and observation, kept pace with the advancement of medical science. He is conservative without
being non-progressive, does not abandon methods of treatment of known merit for experiment, and prefers the solid
ground of es-tablished fact to the realm of empiricism. Dr. Everhardy is popular in fraternal circles, being a
member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Court of Honor. He is a life member of the Kansas Historical Society
and is the chairman of the committee on archives. His parents being members of the Roman Catholic church, he was
brought up in that faith and is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association.
On June 2, 1903, Dr. Everhardy married Miss Louise Hesse, and this union has been blessed by three children: Marie
Louise, William Hesse and Elizabeth Selina. (Kansas Biography Part 2 Vol. III, 1912 Page: 909-910 Transcribed as
written by Millie Mowry)
PARMELEE, WILLIAM
William Parmelee, one of the leading manufacturers
and business men of Leavenworth, was born in Jackson county, Indiana, July i6, 1836, son of William and Katharine
(Wright) Parmelee. The Parmelee family came from Holland, but were of French and Spanish extraction, the first
American ancestors settling in the United States during the early part of the Seventeenth century. William Parmelee's
grandfather was a Presbyterian preacher in western New York, and his children were born at Goshen, Conn. William
Parmelee, Sr., was reared in New York and moved from Ontario county in that state to Jackson county, Indiana, when
that state was an unbroken wilderness. The Indians were frequent visitors of the pioneer settlers, who suffered
all the privations. and hardships incident to life on the frontier. Mrs. Parmelee was born in Green River, N. Y.,
reared and educated in her native state, and there met and married William Parmelee. She accompanied her husband
to Indiana, where he died within six months, leaving her with small children. She made her way back to Bloomfield,
N. Y., with the children and settled at the old home. They endured many hardships, as the eight children were to
be provided for by the mother. She died in Rochester, N. Y., in 1879, aged seventy-nine years.
William was educated in the public schools and
at East Bloomfield Academy, and after finishing his education he began to clerk in a hardware store. In 1856 he
went to Hastings, Minn., but the same year re-turned East and went into a broker's office in New York City. Within
a year he was offered and accepted a position in a hardware store in Iowa City, Iowa, where he remained for two
years, and returning to. New York City, he entered the bank of Duncan, Sherman & Co., as receiving teller.
During his stay there J. P. Morgan entered the same house to learn the banking business. At the outbreak of the
Civil war Mr. Parmelee enlisted in the Twenty-second New York infantry and saw service at Baltimore and Harper's
Ferry during the three months of his enlistment. After being mustered out of the army, Mr. Parmelee returned to
New York City, and D. A. Millington & Company, the firm for whom he had worked in Iowa City, having opened
a store in Leavenworth, sent for him to take charge of that branch of their business. For a year he was in charge
of the store and then became the bookkeeper for Watson & Renhart, and one year later he became a partner in
the business. In 1864 the firm of Parmelee, Leak & Smith was formed and opened a store at the corner of Fourth
and Delaware streets, but in 1865 Mr. Parmelee disposed of his interests and went into Clark's Bank as cashier.
He remained there about a year and then engaged in the retail carpet business under the firm name of William Parmelee
& Company. Within a short time he added a stock of furniture and formed a new company, the Chamberlain, Parmelee
& Company, which carried all kinds of house furnishings. In 1873 he disposed of his interest in the store and
went to Chicago, Ill., where he remained for five years, but returned to Leavenworth about 1878 and became a partner
of Robert Keith. A year later Mr. Parmelee founded the wholesale and retail house of Helmers & Parmelee. Four
years later the store burned and Mr. Parmelee lost $10,000.00 in one hour, but he was not discouraged and immediately
went into the retail furniture business under the firm name of William Parmelee. & Company and carried on the
business of the firm for six years. In 1894 he went to Omaha for a year and then to Philadelphia for two years
to be near his daughter. Late in 1896 he came back to Leavenworth and organized his present business which has
proved very successful. Mr. Parmelee is popular with his fellow townsman and an ardent admirer of the Sunflower
State, which he served at the time of Price's raid. In politics he is a Republican, casting his first vote for
Abraham Lincoln, and his church affiliations are with the Presbyterian church, of which he is an elder.
In 1869 Mr. Parmelee married Elizabeth Black, of
Columbus, N. J. She was descended from some fine old Quaker stock who settled in New Jersey in an early day. Three
of the children of this union are still living: Katharine, the wife of Dr. I. Pierson Willits, of Philadelphia,
Pa.; Irving, the receiving teller of the Leavenworth National Bank, and Eleanor, the wife of Lieut. R. J. West,
U. S. A., now in Alaska. (Kansas Biography Part 2 Vol. III 1912 Page: 898-900 Transcribed as written by Millie
Mowry)
FISHER, GEORGE A.
George A. Fisher, vice-president of the Fisher
Machine Works Company, of Leavenworth, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 14, 1831, a son of George A. and Mary
Ann (Gary) Fisher, the former of German and the latter of Scotch extraction. The father was a boilermaker and worked
at that trade the greater part of his life. His father, whose name was also George, was a noted mechanic of his
day, and was for a long time in the employ of the German government, on account of his discovery of a process for
tempering metal to be used in the manufacture of cannon. Both of Mr. Fisher's parents died in the city of Pittsburgh,
the father about 1896. In 1849 George A. Fisher ran away from home and made his way westward until he reached Fort
Leavenworth, being attracted to that place by the report that there was a large Indian encampment there. After
a short time at Fort Leavenworth he went to St. Louis, where he sold papers and worked at odd jobs until his father,
who had come to St. Louis to do some work, accidentally found him and took him home. He remained at home but a
short time, however, when he went to New Orleans and found employment upon the boats plying between that city and
Mobile. In 1853 he crossed the plains to California. He was with Gen. William Walker in the filibustering expedition
to Nicarauga. For his participation in this affair he was arrested by the Federal authorities, but was soon released
on account of his youth. Again his father met him in St. Louis and persuaded him to return to Pittsburgh, where
he served an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, receiving for his services during his apprenticeship of four
years $100 and a suit of clothes. He then went back to Fort Leavenworth at the time of the border troubles, and
was engaged in carrying despatches between the fort and Lawrence. For a time he was in the employ of the American
Fur Company; was with General Harney in the campaign against the Sioux Indians, and was one of the guides of General
Sully's expedition in 1860. In 1863 Mr. Fisher went back to Pittsburgh, his last service in the West having been
as a scout with the First Dakota cavalry.
While in Pittsburgh in 1863 he married Miss Anna B. Clause, and soon after his marriage settled on a ranch near
Bonham, Dakota Territory. Indian depredations were common in that section, and in a short time he removed to St.
Joseph, Mo., where he resided until 1870, when he located in the city of Leavenworth. For a time after becoming
a resident of Leavenworth Mr. Fisher worked in a packing-house as machinist. He was then in the dairy business
for a few years, and in 1897 he and his four sons-all trained engineers and mechanics-founded the Fisher Machine
Works Company, which is one of the leading concerns of the kind in the West. The first building of the company
was a one-story brick structure, twenty-five by one hundred and twenty-five feet, located at 219 Cherokee street.
Within three years the business had grown to such proportions that it became necessary to purchase four lots and
erect several large buildings. In 1903 the company was incorporated under the laws of Kansas. The entire plant
was destroyed by fire on April 6, 1905, but in a short time a new site, consisting of twenty-one lots at the southwest
corner of Fourth and Choctaw streets, was secured and the present modern plant erected. The works are equipped
with the most modern and improved machinery, and the motto of the company, "A Square Deal for All," has
brought to the Fisher works some large orders. Their trade extends over a large territory, and the Corliss engine
manufactured by .this company has never failed to give satisfaction.
George A. and Anna B. Fisher became the parents of eleven children--six sons and five daughters: Anna B. is the
wife of Charles Disk, of Boling, Kan.; Minnie Belle is the wife of Jeremiah Biddle, of Leavenworth; George H. is
president and general manager of the Fisher Machine Works Company; Cora C. is deceased; Harry G. is second rice-president
and superintendent of the company; Arthur J. is secretary of the company; Walter, now deceased, was secretary of
the company at the time of his death, Grace and Clara live at the parental home; and Ernest and Richard are both
connected with the company.
George H. Fisher, the eldest son, now president
and general manager of the company, was born in Leavenworth Jan. 9, 1874. After attending the public schools of
his native city he completed a course in mechanical engineering. He then learned the machinist's trade in order
to equip himself thoroughly for his work; and it is no disparagement to the other members of the company to say
that much of its success is due to his superb technical training and his excellent executive ability. He is always
alert to the interests of his business, never loses an opportunity secure orders for the products of his factory,
and is equally watchful to see that no defective or imperfect piece of machinery leaves the works.
George A. Fisher has had an eventful life, such
as come to but few men. It is said that during the years he was engaged in the fur trade he never slept in a house;
he has several times been wounded by "bad men" while acting as scout and trader; was at one time thoroughly
acquainted with the Dakota Bad Lands, and knew practically every rod of the country from Pittsburgh to the Pacific
coast and from Canada to Mexico Yet he is not boastful of his achievements, but is a modest, unassuming American
citizen, with a desire to discharge his duties as he sees them, always tolerating a liberal spirit toward his fellow
men and a due regard for their opinions. (Kansas Biography Part 2 Vol. III 1912 Page: 894-896 Transcribed as written
by Millie Mowry)
HURD, THEODORE H.
Theodore H. Hurd, deceased, gained during his life a reputation as an able lawyer and just judge which was not
confined to this state alone. Well fitted by nature and education for his chosen profession, he combined intelligence,
logical reasoning and self-possession with a tenacity of purpose which made him a successful attorney and astute
judge. He never gave up active life and to the end of his long and useful life was as kind, dignified and resourceful
as he had ever been, taking an interest in politics and all public questions. Theodore H. Hurd was born at Pawling,
Dutchess county, New York, Dec. 1, 1819, a son of Jarias Hurd, a farmer of Dutchess county, whose ancestors settled
in New York during colonial days. At an early age Theodore was sent to Casenova Academy, where he graduated. After
leaving school he taught for two years in Virginia, but returned to New work to read law in the office of Horatio
Seymour, of Utica. Subsequently he was in the office of B. Davis Nixon and graduated with the law class of 1847,
in Utica. Within a short time he entered into partnership with Judge Joshua A. Spencer. While living in Utica he
made the acquaintance of Roscoe Conkling, and the friendship thus formed was only terminated by the death of the
senator. In 1854 business brought him to Kansas and he was so pleased with the spirit of the new West that he determined
to make the new territory his home. In 1859 he settled in Leavenworth, and the same year became a partner of H.
Miles Moore under the firm name of Moore & Hurd. When Mr. Moore entered the army the partnership was dissolved
and after that Mr. Hurd continued alone. From the first he made a special study of constitutional and corporation
law and soon became a recognized authority upon those subjects. When the Missouri Valley Insurance Company was
formed he became its attorney and retained this position through all the litigation which followed the appointment
of a receiver and the closing up of the business of the company. The Kansas Pacific railroad retained him as its
attorney soon after it was chartered and he held the same office after the road was bought by the Union Pacific
railroad. He was the attorney for the Kentucky syndicate that owned Flacker's addition to Leavenworth, and was
also retained by the Great Western Manufacturing Company. His association with the railroads brought him into prominence
all over the state and hardly an important case came up in Kansas that his services were not sought. In 1884, when
Judge Brewer resigned from the state supreme court to accept an appointment on the bench of the United States supreme
court, Governor Glick appointed Mr. Hurd, to fill out the unexpired term. He was a stanch Democrat in politics
and heartily supported that party. The judge was a member of the Leavenworth and Kansas State Bar Associations
and represented the latter at a convention of the national association. Fraternally he was affiliated with the
Masonic fraternity, being a charter member of Calvary lodge, and assisted in organizing the Leavenworth commandery
of the Knights Templars. Shortly before his death he had completed a tedious case as referee, and had just made
his report when was taken ill with la grippe and he passed suddenly away on the turning of Feb. 22, 1899, at his
home.
Aug. 25, 1862, Judge Hurd married Clara E. Moak,
of Schoharie county, New York, daughter of Reuben and Mary (Taylor) Moak. Her father, who came of good old German
stock, was born in Schoharie county in 1800, and after reaching manhood became one of the leading business men
of Sharon. He died in Wisconsin in 1866. Mrs. Hurd's mother was also a native of Schoharie county. She was a woman
of fine character and reared her twelve children in the Baptist faith. Judge and Mrs. Hurd had three children.
Mrs. Hurd died in 1911. (Kansas Biography Part 2 Vol. III 1912 Page: 893-894 Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry)
McNAUGHTON, SAMUEL
JAMES
Samuel James McNaughton, lawyer and jurist, is
descended from one of the early Scottish families, which was in Scotland before the formation of the clans. The
heads of this family for centuries were the Thanes of Loch Fyne and Lochawe. The family has a record of its ancestry
for over eight hundred years. Alexander McNaughton, of Argyleshire, immigrated to America in 1738, and settled
in New Windsor, Orange county, New York, and subsequently was granted a patent to land in Argyle, Washington county,
New York. Duncan McNaughton, Samuel's great-great- grandfather, was born in Argyle, Scotland, and married Margaret
Fisher, who, after her husband's death, brought her family to America, the oldest boy, Malcolm, having come with
his uncle, Alexander. The grandfather, Findley, third son of Malcolm, married Elizabeth Murray and they had six
children, of whom Malcolm, the fourth, was born in Argyle, Washington county, New York, and received an excellent
education. He became an attorney and practiced in Saratoga county, New York, where he served six years as judge
of the court of sessions. He died there in 1876. His wife, Phoebe, was the daughter of Gen. James McDouall, who
was a general in the army during the war of 1812. Mrs. Phoebe McNaughton was born in Washington county, New York,
and lived there all her life.
Samuel James, son of Malcolm and Phoebe McNaughton, was born at Schuylerville, Saratoga county, New York, on Sept.
9, 1851, and was next to the youngest of eight children. He was educated at the public schools and at St. Stephen's
Academy. In 1869 he graduated in law and three years later was admitted to the bar. He at once came to Kansas and
began to teach school in Reno township, Leavenworth county; then practiced law in Lawrence for two years, and in
1872 was elected justice of the peace, which office he held fifteen years, and at the same time ran a farm that
he owned near Lawrence. In 1893 he settled in Tonganoxie, where he has since been engaged in professional work.
Fraternally he is past venerable consul of the Modern Woodmen, past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias,
and a member of Tonganoxie Lodge, No. 190, Free and Accepted Masons. For four years he was chairman of the executive
committee of the Kansas Farmers' Alliance.
On April 14, 1881, Mr. McNaughton married Anna A., daughter of Nathaniel H. and Mary A. Eaton; of Reno township,
and they have four children: Malcolm, Lucy, Alicia, and Mabel. (Kansas Biography, Part 2, Vol. III 1912 Page: 892-893
Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry)
ZOELLNER, FRANK
Frank Zoellner, the president and manager of the Zoellner Mercantile Company, of Tonganoxie, Kan., was born in
Leavenworth county, on a farm about eight miles west of Leavenworth, on Nov. 8, 1860, a son of John and Barbara
(Mueller) Zoellner. His father was born in the Province of Bavaria, Germany, in 1816, and his mother was born in
that province in 1832. Hearing of the many opportunities open to young and ambitious men in the new world, they
emigrated from the Fatherland and located in Wisconsin, at Fond du Lac, but came to Kansas in 1859, with so many
of those brave pioneers who played such a prominent part in having Kansas admitted to the Union free from slavery.
There were few railroads in the West at that early day, and the family drove from Wisconsin to Kansas with a team
of oxen, a long and tedious journey. For twelve years Mr. Zoellner lived on a rented farm near Leavenworth, then
lived in the city of Leavenworth for a year, and in 1872 bought a fine farm near Jarbalo, Leavenworth county, where
he lived until his death, in 1888. Mrs. Zoellner now resides at Jarbalo. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Zoellner: Andrew W., who lives at Golden, Ore.; Valentine, deceased; Lizzie, the wife of John Rieger, of Garber,
Okla.; Mary, the wife of Attison Cox, of Jarbalo; and Annie, the wife of Milton Laferty, who lives at Marshall,
Okla.
Frank Zoellner was reared on his father's farm and led the healthy normal life of a country boy. His education
was acquired in the public schools and when only twenty-three years of age he engaged in the mercantile business
with I. M. Smiley, at Jarbalo, under the firm name of Smiley & Zoellner. The Smiley and Zoellner families were
the founders of that town, having owned the land and laid out the ground in lots. After being in partnership a
year the firm was dissolved, in 1884, and Mr. Zoellner bought the stock and carried on the general mercantile business
alone for twelve years. In 1893 he went to Oklahoma, when the Cherokee Strip was opened to homesteaders, and secured
160 acres of land. He remained there a year, but returned to Kansas in 1895 and started a general mercantile establishment
at Tonganoxie, which he ran alone until 1900. On March 6, of that year, the firm was incorporated under its present
name, and Mr. Zoellner became the principal stockholder, also president and general manager. When the company organized
the clerks in the store took stock, and most of the ten people employed are stockholders. A $40,000 stock of goods
is carried and the annual business runs from $85,000 to $95,000 a year. The building in which the business is carried
on has a frontage of 140 feet, on the corner of Fourth and Barry streets, and is one of the finest business houses
in the county. There are four departments, each run separately Groceries, drygoods, hardware and implements. Everything
in the gen-eral mercantile line is carried, but drugs. Mr. Zoellner is one of the leading business men of Leavenworth
county and the house he heads is the largest in the county. He has been remarkably successful in his chosen vocation,
and is held in high esteem by his business associates. On June 24, 1888, Mr. Zoellner married Clara B. Winslow,
of Tonganoxie. Five children have been born to this union: Leslie R., a student in the Kansas State University
at Lawrence; Maude E., also at school at the university; Grace B., in high school; Walter F., in high school, and
Fred W., in the graded school. Mr. Zoellner is a member of the Fraternal Aid, and of the Modern Brotherhood of
America. (Kansas Biography, Part 2, Vol. III 1912 Page: 890-891 Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry)
BROWN, FELIX C.
Felix C. Brown, the proprietor of the Elmwood Hospital of Leavenworth, Kan., was born in Buchanan county, Mo.,
Aug. 13, 1843, a son of Gideon L. and Matilda (Patton) Brown. The father was a son of Felix Brown, of North Carolina,
who descended from a long line of Scotch Presbyterian ancestors, who were prominent during the Colonial period,
and fought in the Revolutionary war: When only a boy, Gideon came West with his father and located at Knoxville,
Tenn., where he was reared to manhood. Felix's mother was a native of Tennessee. Her first American ancestors were
refugees from the North of Ireland, who settled in South Carolina, and her parents, who were both born in South
Carolina, immigrated to Tennessee at an early day. Gideon Brown removed from Tennessee in 1831, and became one
of the pioneer planters of Jackson county, Missouri. Subsequently he removed to Platte and Buchanan counties. He
was a man of shrewd business judgment, energy and enterprise and was considered one of the most successful planters
in the locality. In 1854 he visited what is now Kansas, at that time still known as Nebraska Territory, and took
up land about eight miles west of Leavenworth, but never removed to this state. In 1856 he sold the land and confined
his activities to farming in Buchanan county, where he had many friends. He was actively interested in politics,
but never aspired to hold office. He was a Democrat, a large slave holder, and sympathized with the pro-slavery
party. He died in 1858, but was survived by his wife, who made her home in Wallace, Mo., until her death, in 1902.
Felix C. Brown was reared upon his father's farm, and at the age of nine years accompanied his father on a trip
to the present State of Kansas, and remembers the stirring-times of the border warfare. When only fourteen he accompanied
an expedition to Salt Lake City, under charge of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston. The party spent the winter at Fort
Bridger, and nearly starved to death for lack of provisions. Soon after this Mr. Brown began to freight from Leavenworth,
for Russell, Majors & Waddell, who held a contract to supply food to the army at Forts Laramie, Bridger, Kearney,
Bents and Union. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in the Confederate army, and was assigned to Colonel
Gates' regiment. Within a short time he was transferred to the First Missouri light artillery, with which he served
until the close of the war. He was at the battles of Prairie Grove, Fall of Little Rock and was wounded at a skirmish
near Newtonia, Mo., and at Jenkins' Ferry, but neither time seriously. He took part in all the battles west of
the Mississippi river, in which the department of the Mississippi participated, with the exception of the battles
of Elk Horn and Helena. He was in the Red River campaign, serving as a gunner. The light artillery went into winter
quarters and soon after surrendered at Shreveport, La. After the downfall of the Confederacy, in 1865, Mr. Brown
returned to Missouri and took charge of the old homestead. After farming five years he came to Kansas, in 1872,
and located in Atchison county, where he opened up a farm near the present town of Potter, but returned to Missouri
in 1880. Three years later he came to Leavenworth to take charge of an asylum, known as "Maplewood."
He remained at the head of the hospital for a year, after which he engaged in the livery and grocery business for
four years. In 1888 he built a fine private sanitarium south of the city, of which he has since been the head.
In 1898 he moved the location of his institution to the southwest part of the city, at the corner of Quincy and
Madison streets, where he has a beautiful park of ten acres of land on a slight elevation. The hospital has ample
accommodations for twenty patients, both men and women. The patients are treated by various physicians of the city,
and are cared for by the well trained attendants. Since 1883 Mr. Brown has made a special study of all mental diseases,
and he is assisted in this work by his son, and they have met with marked success in treating and caring for the
insane. The hospital has every modern and sanitary equipment for the comfort of its patients and the convenience
of the attending physicians. Mr. Brown, is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party, and takes an active interest
in public affairs. While living in Atchison county he served as trustee of Walnut township for two terms, and twice
has been a candidate for alderman from the sixth ward of Leaven-worth. Fraternally he is associated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
Feb. 15, 1866, Mr. Brown married Jincy A. Blakely, a native of Platte county, Missouri. Her father was Felix Blakely,
a descendant of an old South Carolinian family, who came to America long before the Revolution, and whose members
took part in the stirring times just before the colonies separated from the Mother Country. Mr. Blakely was born
in the eastern part of Tennessee, but immigrated to Missouri, where he opened up a prairie farm. He is ninety years
of age, but is still hale and hearty, having recently returned from a trip to California, Seattle, and other points
of interest on the Pacific coast. He makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Brown, in Leavenworth. Eight children
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown: Thomas J., who is sheriff of Leavenworth county; Cora M., the wife of Arthur
Land; Maude, the wife of C. H. Masterson, of Leavenworth; Felix L., of Leavenworth ; Gideon A., at home; Jesse,
who lives at Weston, Mo.; Ernest, at home, and Kirby, who lives at Ohio, Neb. (Kansas Biography, Vol. III, Part
2, 1912, Pages 925-927, Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry)
GODDARD, CLARENCE
CASE
Clarence Case Goddard, a popular and successful
physician and surgeon of Leavenworth, is a native of the Empire state, having been born at Gorham, Ontario county,
New York, March 21, 1849, a son of Edwin P. and Maria (Fillmore) Goddard, the former a native of Connecticut and
the latter of Wayne county, New York. Dr. Goddard's paternal ancestry in America dates back to Colonial days, Marcellus
Goddard having served as a soldier in the Colonial army during the war for independence, and the Fillmore family
was early established in New York. Maria Fillmore was a daughter of Luther Fillmore and a second cousin of Millard
Fillmore, who became president of the United States upon the death of General Taylor, in 1850. When Dr. Goddard
was about a year old his parents removed to Canandaigua and about four years later to Palmyra, where the father
was receiver of the port for some time. In 1856 the family came West, locating first at Abingdon, Knox county,
Illinois, then in 1859 to Kansas. In 1860 they removed to Leavenworth, where Edwin P. Goddard engaged in the nursery
business, establishing one of the first nurseries in Kansas, and continued in that line until his death, in 1867,
at the age of fifty-seven years. His widow survived until 1906, and passed away at the age of ninety-two. Dr. Clarence
C. Goddard is one of a family of seven sons and one daughter. Of those now living Edward F. resides at San Diego,
Cal.; Luther M., an ex-associate justice of the Colorado supreme court, resides in Denver; and Byron S. resides
at Broken Arrow, Okla.
Dr. Clarence C. Goddard was educated in the public
schools of Leavenworth, being a member of the first class to graduate in the city high school in 1866. He then
began the study of medicine, with Dr. J. W. Brock, of Leavenworth, and in 1873 graduated with the degree of Doctor
of Medicine in Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York, now the medical department of the New York University.
Soon after receiving his degree from this institution he entered the United States army as a surgeon, with the
rank of lieutenant, and served in the department of Missouri, in Kansas, Indian Territory, Texas, Colorado, New
Mexico and Arizona, until 1887, when he resigned and returned to Leavenworth to engage in private practice. While
serving as surgeon in the army he took up the study of nervous and mental diseases, with a view to becoming a specialist
in that line of practice, and in 1890 he established a sanitarium in the southern part of the city, known as "Evergreen
Place Hospital and Sanitarium," where he has accommodations for one hundred patients. Believing in the advantages
of association Dr. Goddard belongs to a number of medical societies. He is an ex-president of the State Medical
Society; the Leavenworth County Medical Society; the Northeast Kansas Medical Society; a member and ex-secretary
of one of the departments of the Medical Association of the Southwest; a member of the Missouri Valley Medical
Association, and of the Burlington Railway Surgeons' Association. He has served as the Kansas delegate to the American
Medical Association, and holds the important position of surgeon to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway.
He occupied the chair of nervous and mental diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kansas City,
Kan., at the time it was made the medical department of the University of Kansas, and still holds the chair in
the new institution. He is also a professor in the Post-graduate Medical School and Clinic of Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Goddard is well known in Masonic circles, having served as worshipful master of his lodge, eminent commander
of his Knights Templars commandery, and he is past potentate and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. His political affiliations
are with the Democratic party, and in 1910 he was elected to the legislature as one of the representatives from
Leavenworth county.
In 1874 Dr. Goddard married Miss Clara C. Weibling,
of Denver, Col. Her father, Harmon G. Weibling, came to Leavenworth from Baltimore, Md., in 1854, and engaged in
business as a contractor. His death occurred in 1872. Dr. and Mrs. Goddard have one son, Clarence B., who graduated
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the University of Kansas in 1904, then studied medicine, and is now associated
with his father in practice. (Kansas Biography, Vol. III, Part 2, 1912, Pages 924-925, Transcribed as written by
Millie Mowry)
McFARLAND, ROBERT
G.
Robert G. McFarland, the clerk of the district
court of Leavenworth, was born at Fort Leavenworth, Oct. II, 1872, a son of James and Margaret (Dwyer) McFarland.
His father was an Irishman, born in County Tyrone; he immigrated to America when he was twenty-one years of age
and soon after enlisted in the United States army, and was assigned to the Fourth United States artillery. It was
with that battery that he first came to Kansas, in 1854. During the Civil war he was wounded at Baton Rouge. Subsequently
he was a member of the First United States infantry, and served in the army for eleven years. After leaving the
service he was in the employ of the government for twenty-two years. Mr. McFarland died on Dec. 16, 1887, at the
age of fifty-three. Mrs. McFarland came to Kansas in 1858, when she was a girl and received her education in the
Leavenworth public schools. Since the death of her husband she resides in Leavenworth.
Robert G. McFarland was reared in Leavenworth and
received his education in the public schools. While still young he learned the moulders' trade, completing his
apprenticeship in 1892, and worked at that occupation for five years. In 1897 he accepted a position as clerk in
the national headquarters of the Modern Woodmen of America, at Rock. Island, Ill., where he remained for some time.
On his return to Leavenworth Mr. McFarland entered actively into public life and politics, and in 1904 was elected
clerk of the city court. Two years later he was elected clerk of the district court and has since served in that
capacity. He is well known in his native town, popular with the residents and one of the rising young men of the
city. He belongs to the Republican party and always works in its interests.
In 1903 Mr. McFarland married Mary Parson, of Leavenworth,
and two children have been born to the union, Robert James and Mary Belle. Mr. McFarland is a member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, the Eagles, and the Court of Honor. (Kansas Biography, Vol. III, Part 2, 1912, Pages
923-924, Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry)
TAYLOR, JOHN T.
John T. Taylor, the well known chief of police
of Leavenworth, Kan., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 7, 1841, the son of William H. H. and Anna Tuttle (Harrison)
Taylor. His father was a native of Richmond, Va., who moved to Ohio at an early day and there met and married Anna
Harrison, youngest daughter of President William Henry Harrison, and a grandchild of Benjamin Harrison, one of
the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Judge John Cloves Simms, her grandfather, was one of the first
white settlers in Ohio. He purchased several thousand acres of land between the two Miami rivers, which also included
what is now the city of Cincinnati. When John T. Taylor was only seven years old his parents moved to North Bend,
Ohio, to live with the grandfather, and there the boy was reared and received the educational advantages afforded
by the hardy pioneers. At the outbreak of the Civil war the father organized the Fifth Ohio cavalry and served
as colonel of the regiment, but in 1864 was forced to resign on account of ill health, and returned to the old
home, where he lived until 1867, when he moved to Minnesota and for eighteen years served as state librarian of
Minnesota and died in office, at the age of eighty-one. The mother passed away in 1865, in Ohio. John T. Taylor's
brother, William, also enlisted in the Union army and received a commission as captain of the Eighteenth United
States infantry and served throughout the war.
Aug. 7, 1861, John T. Taylor enlisted in Company G, Fifth Ohio cavalry, and subsequently was elected first lieutenant.
At Paducah, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. W. T. Sherman, and his first important battle was Shiloh. At
Vicksburg he was severely injured, but after months of suffering recovered, and had the distinction of witnessing
the restoration of the old flag to the flagstaff at Fort Sumter, by Gen. Robert Anderson, and listening to Henry
Ward Beecher's oration on that occasion. He was discharged in May, 1865, at Charleston, S. C., and returned to
Ohio, and in 1866 came to Kansas. For some time Mr. Taylor was engaged in farming and in real estate, buying and
selling land, but gave that up to accept a position as traveling salesman, which occupation he followed for twenty-one
years. When D. R. Anthony became mayor of Leavenworth he appointed Mr. Taylor chief of the police force, and when
the commission form of government was adopted by the city, at the election of Mayor Crancer, he was again made
chief of police. Mayor Abernathy chose him for the same position and he reappointed by Mayor Doege, which office
he still holds.
In 1881 Mr. Taylor married Amelia M. Wilson, who was a teacher in the schools at Bloomington, I11. Mr. Taylor is
a member of the Grand Army of the Republic; Military Order of the Loyal Legion, being second vice-commander of
that order; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks: of the United Commercial Travelers, and is also a member
of the International Association of Police Chiefs, and vice-president of the Peace Officers' Association of the
State of Kansas. He is an able and efficient officer, who does his duty fearlessly and impartially. (Kansas Biography,
Vol. III, Part 2, 1912, Pages 938-939, Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry)
TULLOCK, ALONZO
J.
Alonzo J. Tullock, late of Leavenworth, was in
his day one of the best known citizens of that city, and one of the leading civil and constructive engineers in
the Middle West. He was born on a farm near Rockford, Ill., in the year 1854, and passed his boyhood in that neighborhood.
After attending the public schools he prepared himself to enter college, and graduated with high standing in the
civil engineering course at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Immediately upon receiving his degree he went
to Chicago to accept a position with a railroad company as assistant engineer and continued in this capacity until
1879, when he came to Leavenworth to enter the employ of Insley & Shire, at that time proprietors of the Missouri
Valley Bridge Company & Iron Works. The company was not then in a prosperous condition, and for several years
had been struggling to maintain an existence. Mr. Tullock's technical knowledge of engineering, coupled with his
sound business judgment and fine executive ability, finally brought the concern through the crisis and placed it
upon a firm financial footing. After several years with Insley & Shire, as their consulting engineer and superintendent,
he purchased the interests of his employers, becoming the owner and manager of the entire business. He was now
in a position to carry out his long cherished desire to expand his field of operations, and by reaching out after
new contracts he soon made the Missouri Valley Bridge Company known in a number of states. As the head of the con-cern
Mr. Tullock designed and built a number of the largest bridges over the Missouri river, as well as many bridges
over the principal streams of the South and West. Probably his most pretentious work is the large steel wharf at
Tampico, Mex., which he erected for the Mexican government at a cost of over $2,000,000. This great structure,
and the numerous bridges erected by his company, stand as monuments to his engineering skill, his industrial energy
and his integrity as a man who always executed his contracts to the letter, and who never knowingly permitted a
piece of imperfect work to leave his shops. Besides his large interests as the head of the bridge company, Mr.
Tullock was a director for some time of the First National Bank of Leavenworth. He was a public-spirited citizen,
always a willing helper to any and every movement for the civic and material advancement of his adopted city. In
connection with his bridge building business he had extensive dealings with the Carnegie Steel Company and became
personally acquainted with Mr. Carnegie. It was through this acquaintance that the city of Leavenworth secured
the Carnegie Library, another evidence of Mr. Tullock's interest in the city. After an illness of about a year,
Mr. Tullock died at his home in Leavenworth, on July 21, 1904, leaving a widow, a son, Hubert, and two daughters,
Florence and Lucy. (Kansas Biography, Vol. III, Part 2, 1912, Pages 937-938,
Transcribed as written by Millie Mowry)
ANTHONY, DANIEL
R.
Anthony, Daniel R., journalist and soldier, was
born at South Adams, Mass., Aug. 22, 1824, a son of Daniel and Lucy Anthony, and a brother of Susan B. Anthony,
the famous advocate of female suffrage. In his boyhood he attended school at Battenville, N. Y., and later spent
six months at the Union Village Academy. Upon leaving school he became a clerk in his father's cotton mill and
flour mill until he was-about 23 years old, when he went to Rochester, N. Y. After teaching school for two seasons
he engaged in the insurance business, and in 1854 he was a member of the first colony sent out to Kansas by the
New England Emigrant Aid Society. In June, 1857, he located at Leavenworth, which city was his home for the remainder
of his life. When the Seventh Kansas cavalry was organized in 1861, Mr. Anthony was commissioned lieutenant-colonel
and served until he resigned on Sept. 3, 1862. his resignation being due to a controversy between him and Gen.
R. B. Mitchell. While in camp at Etheridge, Tenn., in June, 1862, Lieut. Col. Anthony was temporarily in command
of the brigade, during a short absence of Gen. Mitchell, and issued an order prohibiting slaveowners from coming
inside the Union lines for the purpose of recovering fugitive slaves. The order further specified that "Any
officer or soldier of this command who shall arrest and deliver to his master a fugitive slave shall be summarily
and severely punished according to the laws relative to such crimes." When Gen. Mitchell returned and assumed
command of the brigade, he asked Lieut.-Col. Anthony to countermand the order. Anthony replied that as he was no
longer in command he had no right to issue or revoke orders. Mitchell then placed him in command long enough to
rescind the obnoxious order, when Anthony, being in command, denied the right of Gen. Mitchell to dictate what
he should do, and again refused to countermand the order. He was arrested and relieved of the command, but the
matter came before the United States senate and Anthony was reinstated by Gen. Halleck. Then he resigned. He was
elected mayor of Leaven- worth in 1863 and undertook to clear the city of Southern sympathizers. Several houses
sheltering them were burned, when Gen. Ewing placed the city under martial law. Ewing's scouts seized some horses,
Anthony interfered and was again arrested, but was released the next day and civil law was restored. In the spring
of 1866 Mr. Anthony was removed from the office of postmaster in Leavenworth because he refused to support the
reconstruction policy of Andrew Johnson. He was president of the Republican state convention of 1868, and the same
year was one of the Kansas presidential electors. In 1872 he was again elected mayor of the city; was appointed
postmaster of Leavenworth by President Grant on April 3, 1874, and reappointed by President Hayes on March 22,
1878. He served several terms in the city council, and was nominated for mayor a number of times but was defeated.
Mr. Anthony was a life member of the Kansas State Historical Society, of which he was president in 1885-86. In
Jan., 1861, he established the Leaven worth Conservative, but the following year sold it to A. C. and D. W. Wilder.
In March, 1864, he purchased the Bulletin, the Times came into his possession in 1871, and this paper he continued
to conduct until his death. As a journalist Mr. Anthony was aggressive, and his outspoken editorials frequently
involved him in trouble. To him physical fear was a stranger, and when R. C. Satterlee of the Leavenworth Herald
published something derogatory to Mr. Anthony in 1864 a shooting affair occurred which resulted in the death of
Satterlee. On May 10. 1875, W. W. Embry, a former employee, fired three shots at Mr. Anthony on the stairway of
the opera house. One of the shots took effect in the right breast, just below the collar bone, severed an artery
and Mr. Anthony's recovery from this wound is regarded as one of the remarkable cases of modern surgery. Mr. Anthony
married Miss Annie E. Osborn of Edgarton. Mass., Jan. 21. 1864, and died at Leavenworth on Nov. 12, 1904. A short
time before his death he suggested the following as his epitaph: "He helped to make Kansas a free state. He
fought to save the Union. He published the Daily Times for nearly forty years in the interest of Leavenworth. He
was no hypocrite." (Submitted by Janice Rice)
ANTHONY, DANIEL
R. JR.
Anthony, Daniel R., Jr., journalist and member
of Congress from the First Kansas district, was born in the city of Leavenworth. Kan., Aug. 22, 1870, a son of
Daniel R. and Annie (Osborn) Anthony. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, graduated in the
class of 1887 at the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake. Mich., and in 1891 he received the degree of LL.
D. from the university of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The greater part of Mr. Anthony's career has been taken up in
newspaper work, and since the death of his father, in Nov., 1904, he has been at the head of the Leavenworth Times,
which his father conducted for nearly forty years. From 1898 to 1902 he was postmaster of Leavenworth, and in 1903
was elected mayor of the city for a term of two years. On March 29, 1907, he was elected without opposition to
fill the unexpired term of Charles Curtis in the national house of representatives, Mr. Curtis having resigned
his seat to enter the United States senate. At the election in Nov., 1908, he was re- elected for a full term of
two years, defeating F. M. Pearl by a plurality of 7.950, and in 1910 he was again elected, defeating J. B. Chapman
by a plurality of 14,376. Mr. Anthony was the originator of the project to build a military road from Fort Leavenworth
to Fort Riley, and on Dec. 16, 1909, he introduced a bill in Congress for that purpose. His plan was to utilize
the labor of the convicts in the Federal prisons at Fort Leavenworth. and several farmers along the line of the
proposed road have signified their willingness to furnish the stone for its construction. In addition to his editorial
and Congressional duties. Mr. Anthony is a director of the Leavenworth National bank. He was united in marriage
on June 21, 1897, with Miss Elizabeth Havens of Leavenworth. (Submitted by Janice Rice)
